Gothic Ivories Project | Openwork panel (plaquette ajourée), 2 registers (Front)

Openwork panel (plaquette ajourée), 2 registers (Front)

Openwork panel (plaquette ajourée), 2 registers (Front)

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Subject
Religious.

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Paris, Musée de Cluny-Musée national du Moyen Âge

Cl. 1840

Ivory;wood (later panel)

Height: 67mm
Width: 70mm

Register 1: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit; saint Catherine of Alexandria. Saint Michael and the Devil; saint Christopher; saint James the Greater.
Register 2: saint Mary Magdalene; saint John the Baptist; saint Margaret of Antioch. Nativity and Annunciation to the Shepherds.

Koechlin Number: 0868

Labarte 1847: 14th century.
Koechlin 1924: France, mid 15th century.
Museum's opinion 2010: 19th century (?).

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Affixed onto a wooden panel.

Comments
This panel is part of the same ensemble as another piece also in the Musée de Cluny (Cl. 1839).

Provenance
Debruge-Duménil Collection: sold, Paris, January-March 1849, lot 153, to the Museum.

Bibliography
J. Labarte, Description des objets d'art qui composent la collection Debruge-Duménil (Paris, 1847), no. 153, p. 456.
E. Du Sommerard, Catalogue et description des antiquités et objets d'art exposés au musée de Cluny (Paris, 1883), no. 1084.
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), II, no. 868.

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